My Daughters Christening - help!!

[jackieglyn]

Hi i am having my daughter christened in a couple of weeks and everyone is coming back to ours after for food and drinks. Any ideas or what to do apart from the normal buffet?

i alos would like to do something special and different. there are also quite a few kids coming so i dont know what to do to keep them entertained, i dont want my house wrecked!

Thanks

[Moomin]

i had similar worried when we had the dds christened at easter! It was actually on eatser sunday so we did an easter egg hunt in the garden but you could do something with a summer theme instead, just a little activity for them to hunt round the garden for treats maybe?

i think if you've got a garden big enough i'd put out different garden toys & sandpit and some chairs for adults to sit out and supervise. if you can beg or borrow a pergola-thingy i would ( we got ours for £20 from woolies) then put picnic rugs, blankets and cushions outside as well. try and keep the kids outside if you can. they actually amuse themselves for much of the time i've found (from other parties we've also had)

i think maybe in this weather i'd serve big jugs of pimms or sangria and a non-alcohoic version with lots of fruit in; and could you maybe do a bbq for the main part of the food with bowls of different salads to accompany?

[jackieglyn]

that sounds like a very good idea, i especially like the barbeque idea and keeping the kids outside.

[mazzystar]

for dessert, a whopping tub of the nicest icecream you can afford, served in proper sugar cones. no washing up.

[jackieglyn]

i like that idea, whats sugar cones?? sorry for being stupid. are you ment to have a christening cake too? im not to up on these kind of things.

[mazzystar]

sugar cones are just the lovely biscuity ones rather than the wafery ones. but either would do.

christening cake is meant to be top layer of wedding cake (do you mean you haven't saved it! shocking)......but as we didn't get married till 6 months late, we made fairy cakes.

[jackieglyn]

great thankyou for you help iv just got to hope its a nice day now.

[WestCountryLass]

For my DDs naming ceremony I got a ham on the bone from the local butchers, quiches from Sainsburys and I just did nice cheeses with grapes and couscous, pasta and green salad with soem nice bread follwoed by strawberries and cream.

The only things I had to actually knock up was the salads and I could do them the evening before.

I did make a seperate childrens birthday party buffet as it was on her birthday but you could either not bother or just put out some sausage rolls, cheese and pineapple and some fairy cakes and I am sure the kids would be happy with that.

HTH!

Oh, and kids of all ages love balloons so fill a room with balloons for them and shove them in the garden.